Not really the same usage as you. But I went from an M1 Air to FW13 7840U. For work, it’s mostly Edge with 10-15 tabs open, excel (10k+ rows), and 8+ Citrix environments all open at the same time. As far as battery life goes, I get like 12-14 hours on the MBA @ 50% brightness. On the FW13 I get 7-9 hrs (Win 11 pro, balanced power, 50% brightness). Definitely less than the Mac but it’s still very good. It beats all of my intel machines doing the same thing (<6 hrs). I think the performance matches or even beats my M1 Air. The SSD is certainly faster, so it feels quicker overall.

I think the fingerprint sensor on the FW13 is a tad slower. But it’s still useable. And the Wi-Fi card that comes with it is worst. It drops the connection more whenever you’re like on the edge of range. Luckily, that is upgradeable, so I’ll probably swap that out at some point. Speakers are ok. It’s actually really good in the mids (voices) but lacks bass and treble.

The keyboard is fine. I don’t think it’s any worse than the MBA. Build quality is surprisingly good for how repairable it is. The bezel being plastic, and the mushiness of the power button (fingerprint sensor) is the only thing I think makes it seem cheap. I think the touchpad is fine. I think it’s because most people click and I’m a tapper so it’s fine to me. Does gestures well, is sensitive enough. I wish it was the haptic one like on the Mac only because I don’t click, so the touchpad won’t move lol

I did run into this problem when I was setting up a second local account. but it resolved itself after rebooting.

should be fine considering the crucial cl46 kit works

No. but I don’t put a lot of pressure on the lid for it to do that.

Using this for my charging/docking cable. It does stick out on the USB-C port on this laptop. Thinking about modifying the port to make it flusher. On my other laptop it would not have a gap. I switch between laptops on my docking station often, so it’s just easier when it’s attached by magnets. Same with charging which traveling, can’t accidentally yank the laptop somewhere lol

I’m getting about 10 hours for light use. Mostly web browsing, IM and installing programs. Brightness at 50%. Expansion cards: 2x usb-c, 1x usb-a, 1x micro sd. I feel like it can go even longer if I was just pure web browsing.

I could do 2 external 1080p monitors + the laptop screen with a USB-C CalDigit dock no problem. I have the AMD 7840.